It is said that “anger” is only one letter “D” away from “Danger.” Now research has proven this to be true, at least in the workplace. According to a study at the University of Missouri-Columbia, “Angry people are more likely to sustain injuries serious enough to require emergency medical care and the risk is higher for men than for women.” According to this report, “Workplace injuries are more likely when one is angry.” However, interestingly enough, anger was not linked to traffic accidents or falling injuries.

This study, which appeared in the Annals of Family Medicine, found that about 32% of all the emergency room patients studied reported being irritable just before they were injured, 18% said they were angry and 13% reported being hostile. The conclusion was that anger and hostility significantly increase your odds of being injured where hostility increased those odds six-fold. The lesson here is this: Anger and hostility are not only bad for those around you, but they also increase your potential for injury. My advice? Try controlling anger to avoid injury, and don’t worry…be happy!